Field Sales Executive Gift and Toy

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, organised, and confident individual to join our Nosy Crow Sales team as a Field Sales Executive, working across Nosy Crow’s fast growing and award-winning Children’s list.

Nosy Crow is a multi-award winning, independent children’s publishing company based in London. We make child focused, parent-friendly children’s books for ages 0-12. This role is ideal for someone eager to continue their sales career in a fast-growing company, which produces a broad range of beautiful books.

As part of the Nosy Crow Sales team you will work as a brand ambassador, responsible for identifying new account opportunities in the gift and toy sector, forming relationships with customers across the UK and helping to support our Independent customers and grow the Nosy Crow business.

You’ll need to be friendly and determined, with a keen eye for detail, and good at working as part of a team.

Reporting to the Field Sales Manager, you will also support the Field Sales team on their accounts, helping with sales administration, ordering, presentations and sales materials.

The role is a full-time position and is a hybrid role, working a minimum of three days per week in our office near London Bridge. There will also be opportunities to visit new accounts alongside our Field Sales team.

The successful candidate will have the right to live and work in the UK.

Purpose of the Job:

Reporting to our Field Sales Manager, you will be responsible for identifying new account opportunities in the gift and toy sector, forming relationships with customers across the UK and helping to support our Independent customers and grow the Nosy Crow business. You will also provide support to our Area Sales Managers, helping with sales administration, orders and materials.

Key responsibilities and tasks:           

• Identifying new business opportunities across the UK, helping to open accounts and suggest relevant titles
• Supporting the Field Sales team across a range of accounts, including order input, data analysis and presentations for customer meetings
• Assisting with preparing presentations, order forms and other sales materials.
• Oversee book mailings and sample requests across the Field Sales team.
• Create and schedule monthly customer newsletters and communications via Outlook and Mailchimp
• Liaising with our operations teams and Nosy Crow’s distributors, Harper Collins LTD, to ensure efficient processing of customer orders, stock reserves, stock holding requests and returns.
• Attending Trade Fairs, Educational Fairs and Gift Fairs as required.
• Working with the PR, Digital and Marketing teams to ensure the Field Sales events and mailings are executed efficiently
• Maintenance of Field Sales accounts database and reporting systems on Excel and Harper Collins systems

Key skills, characteristics, and capabilities:

• Would suit a Sales Assistant looking for their next role in publishing
• Very good organizational skills and ability to prioritize
• A very close eye for detail and accuracy
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills plus the ability to write persuasive copy
• Experience working with sales data and Excel for sales analysis
• Experience of Powerpoint and Adobe is preferred
• Confidence in building and maintaining relationships both internally and with customers
• The ability to prioritise tasks and deadlines in a busy and fast paced environment
• Willingness to be fully involved in our busy and fun office
• A keen interest in children’s books

Benefits

• Pension scheme
• Hybrid working
• 25 days paid holiday, plus bank holidays
• Christmas closure
• Summer hours
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Income Protection
• Critical Illness cover
• Group Life Assurance
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/partner/adoption leave
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Eye care vouchers
• Up to 80% off RRP for Nosy Crow book purchases
• Emergency loans

The starting salary for this role is £31,000.

If this sounds like you, please email your CV, accompanied by a cover letter of no more than 500 words, outlining why you think you would be the perfect candidate for this exciting new opportunity to Rhianna Sandford at hr@nosycrow.com. We look forward to reading your application.

Please let us know if you are comfortable doing so, whether or not there are any reasonable adjustments that we should consider that would help during the recruitment process.

The closing date for applications is midnight (UK time) on 15th October 2024.

Nosy Crow is a Disability Confident, committed equal opportunities employer. We believe that employing a diverse workforce is an important factor in success and make recruiting decisions based on applicants’ experience and skills.  We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of race, age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage or civil partnership.

Applications are treated with due confidentiality.

Nosy Crow is a member of the Living Wage foundation.